Here is something that I ran into the other day :the socket module 's htonl() and ntohl() functions will return signed numbers undersome circumstances, not unsigned ones, which means that for some inputvalues they will return negative numbers.

(Some quick testing suggests that this happens on 32-bit x86 machinesbut not 64-bit x86 Linux machines; all of the 32-bit machines I haveaccess to are running some version of Python 2.5.

One of the corollaries to the limits of certain sorts of anti-spamheuristics is that if you see spam softwareactively working to get around any particular sort of precaution, youcan assume that the particular precaution is getting reasonably popular.

This follows from spammers being lazy but not stupid; if the precautionwas not reasonably popular, dealing with it probably wouldn't be worththe time of the programmers behind the spam bots. That they do deal withit implies that it is worth their while to do so, which

Rather than just just email my comments to Author in response to his entry ,I'll be Author-like and post something here for once.

The first fansub of Ookami+7's first episode has come out, and I'vewatched it now (partly because of Author's entry). Unlike some, Iactually like the narration; without its injection of snarky commentaryand the show's gleefully casual exploitation of Western fairy talesfor our amusement, this would be a pretty ordinary romantic comedy